It's a golf course. He and other 'Pigs will play to raise money for team's charities.

Barry Enright, his uncle, brother and mother searched all around the back of the par-3 third hole at Brookside Country Club in Stockton, Calif., looking for Enright's tee shot.

Then his uncle checked the one spot everyone hopes to find their tee shot: in the hole.

There it was, Enright's first hole-in-one, at age 13 in 1999.

"It was a tough time for me, but they all knew the golf course was my happy place," said Enright, a starting pitcher for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.

Enright's difficulty started three days earlier.

Frank Enright, Barry's father, died at age 45 from cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle. The elder Enright, a lawyer, was walking into his happy place — the local gym, where he worked out and played basketball almost every day — when he collapsed.

"He was supposed to be going to the hospital the next day to get a defibrillator put in," Barry recalled. "God's plan."

Enright has had other hole-in-ones, but none as memorable as the first because of the timing, company and circumstances.

The 28-year-old will try to add to his golf resume Wednesday, when the annual IronPigs Charities golf tournament tees off at 8 a.m. from Southmoore Golf Club in Moore Township.

Enright is the ringer for any team. The scratch golfer was pulled from a stacked foursome of IronPigs to play with manager Dave Brundage and hitting coach Sal Rende, themselves decent golfers.

"I've been getting a lot of crap for that in the locker room," Enright said.